Recycle fracking wastewater to reduce earthquakes

7:43 PM,
Jul. 26, 2013

Written by

Darrell Shahan

According to a recent USA Today article, earthquakes in the U.S. have increased in the past three years to five times the normal number. This parallels the increase in the drilling of new oil and gas fracking wells. Geologists and seismologists state the most likely cause of the quakes is the increasing use of deep waste water disposal wells to dispose of fracking wastewater created by resurgent oil and gas drilling.

Recent earthquakes have occurred near Youngstown and other oil and gas-producing regions. The state of Ohio suspects that nearby injection well activity caused the Youngstown ...